Firefox 18 released with retina display support

January 10th, 2013 2 Comments

Firefox 18 released with retina display support

Firefox 18

The latest version of Mozilla’s browser, Firefox 18 is now available for download. This version see’s more than 21 updates with around 300 bug fixes. Mozilla assures that Firefox 18 makes Web apps and games perform up to 25 percent faster.  You can check this claim out by playing BananaBread a fun 3D Web game created by the Mozilla Developer Network and powered exclusively by HTML5, WebGL and JavaScript.

firefox 18 retina support

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The desktop version also brings retina display support for a crisper and sharper internet experience. Apart from this the new Ionmonkey javascript compiler boosts the browser performance giving you the earlier mentioned performance when playing games, watching HD videos or loading heavy pages. Animated themes have been disabled from this version of Firefox as Mozilla claims that they were slowing the browser. On the security front, users will now have the option to block any unsafe content on https sites.

The Android version of Firefox will now offer search suggestions as you type in the “awesome bar”, you can opt out of this feature if you choose. Mozilla has assuredthat  these search suggestions are conducted over a secure connection to protect  user data. New phishing and malware filters have been incorporated as well to protect users against malicious websites.

Firefox still needs to catch up with Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in terms of market share. Hopefully their 6 week update cycle will help them integrate new features more rapidly and push them to the front. What browser do you use and which one do you prefer? SHare your thoughts with us here.

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Google Plus lets you zoom into and pan images on the desktop

January 9th, 2013 1 Comment

Google Plus lets you zoom into and pan images on the desktop

Zoom function in G+

While Facebook has been quite busy over the holiday season releasing their Poke and Pages Manager app, adding voice messaging to the messenger app and rebuilding their Facebook Android app with native code like its iOS counterpart, Google plus is introducing some new features too. Google Plus launched the Communities feature for people with common interests to meet up and discuss about topics like photography, astronomy, Android etc. They have now added a cool zoom and pan feature to their image gallery.

As opposed to Facebook, Google Plus see’s a lot of photographs shared on a daily basis. Professional photographers showcase their works and sometimes also offer their images for free download. To make image viewing more intuitive in the image gallery, Google Plus has added a simple zoom and pan feature in the gallery. When viewing a photo in full screen mode, just scroll your mouse wheel up or down to zoom into or zoom out of the image. This will bring up a small window in the top left corner of the image where you can drag the slider to the left or right for more precision. You can also the drag the image around to pan to a certain section of the image. The zoom feature only seems to work on high resolution images as of now.

Are you excited about this new feature in Google Plus? What are your other favorite features from this site? Let us know in the comments.

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